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Diminished Protective Effects of Household Income on Internalizing Symptoms among African American than European American Pre-Adolescents

Journal of Economics, Trade and Marketing Management

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Title Diminished Protective Effects of Household Income on Internalizing Symptoms among African American than European American Pre-Adolescents
 
Creator Assari, Shervin
Islam, Sondos
 
Description Aim: To investigate the differential role of race on the effect of household income on pre-adolescents’ internalizing symptoms in a national sample of U.S. pre-adolescents. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study that used data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study. Wave 1 ABCD data included 5,913 adolescents between ages 9 and 10 years old. The independent variable was household income. The primary outcome was internalizing symptoms measured by the teacher report of the Brief Problem Monitor (BPM) scale. Results: Overall, high household income was associated with lower levels of pre-adolescents internalizing symptoms. Race showed statistically significant interaction with household income on pre-adolescents’ internalizing symptoms, controlling for all confounders, indicating weaker protective effect of high household income on internalizing symptoms for African American than European pre-adolescents. Conclusion: High household income is a more salient protective factor against internalizing symptoms of socially privileged European American pre-adolescents than of historically marginalized African Americans pre-adolescents. Elimination of internalizing behavioral gaps across racial groups requires more than equalizing socioeconomic status. Future research should study the moderating role of institutional and structural racism experienced by African American families across all income levels. Such research may explain why pre-adolescent African Americans with high household income remain at high risk of internalizing symptoms.
 
Publisher Scholink Co., LTD
 
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Date 2020-10-19
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
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Identifier http://www.scholink.org/ojs/index.php/jetmm/article/view/3355
10.22158/jetmm.v2n4p38
 
Source Journal of Economics, Trade and Marketing Management; Vol 2, No 4 (2020); p38
2642-2417
2642-2409
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.scholink.org/ojs/index.php/jetmm/article/view/3355/3374
 
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